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Two tankers were set ablaze and brought to a halt south of the Strait of Hormuz after hitting Iranian mines, the Revolutionary Guards' Navy said in a statement shared by state media on Tuesday, without saying when the tankers were hit.
More than 250,000 people have been internally displaced in Yemen since the civil war reignited, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday the kingdom intercepted a ballistic missile targeting the capital Riyadh, shortly after authorities issued an alert.
When Sofia Oliveira stopped at her local market to buy flowers for her grandmother, she did not expect a routine errand to leave her feeling threatened.
British universities worked together to suppress pro- Palestine activism on student campuses, a new report has revealed.
Ships approaching the Suez Canal, the Sumed pipeline, energy terminals and fuel storage facilities: these are among the assets Egypt must consider potentially exposed if it enters direct combat against Yemen ’s Houthis.
Good morning Middle East Eye readers, Here are the latest developments: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that it intercepted and destroyed a US MQ-9 drone over the Strait of Hormuz early on Tuesday. The statement, carried by state media, announced that an advanced air defence system operated by…
The World Food Programme says a lack of funding will force it to reduce food assistance for Palestinians in Gaza, including by cutting rations.
Yemeni government forces launched four air strikes on the Bani Moath area in northern Yemen's Saada, according to Houthi-affiliated media.
Israeli troops have released on Tuesday a civilian detained during an incursion into Syria’s Quneitra governorate a day earlier, according to state media.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called US President Donald Trump “by far, the greatest friend Israel has ever had”, in footage he shared a day after Trump endorsed him ahead of Israel’s upcoming elections.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that it intercepted and destroyed a US MQ-9 drone over the Strait of Hormuz early on Tuesday.
Egyptian construction firms surveyed sites in the ruins of the southern Gaza Strip for a housing project dubbed "Green Rafah", Egyptian sources have told Middle East Eye.
US President Donald Trump has slammed Nato allies, saying they "weren't there to help" Washington during its war on Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told reporters on Monday that regional issues should be resolved through diplomacy, blaming the US for insecurity and tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider region.
The Hind Rajab Foundation said it filed an urgent request with the US Department of Justice to arrest and prosecute an Israeli commander over his alleged involvement in the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab.
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen warned Houthis against smuggling weapons, missiles and military equipment on boats.
US Senator Bernie Sanders has criticised president Donald Trump after he endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The spokesperson for Yemen’s Houthis says that its forces carried out six military operations over the past 48 hours targeting various sites in Saudi Arabia with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones.
US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday, Axios reported.
Israeli fighter jets were spotted over southern and eastern Syria, local sources reported.
A Boeing jet known to carry senior UAE officials landed in Tehran on Monday for the second time in a few days, amid fears that the US could resume attacking Iran and spark new strikes on Gulf states.
Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil has asked the highest court in the US to hear his case, arguing the government is trying to shut down the ability of a federal judge to intervene when free speech rights are curtailed.
In an interview broadcast on Monday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel should not give Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman anything until he gives something in return.
The Saudi-backed Yemeni armed forces said they carried out three air strikes against Houthi forces in Taiz governorate.
A Boeing jet known to carry senior UAE officials landed in Tehran on Monday for the second time in a few days, amid fears that the US could resume attacking Iran and spark new strikes on Gulf states.
Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the US Senate in the upcoming November midterm elections, confronted a heckler on Saturday at a town hall in Michigan who asked him to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Trump administration is weighing spending more than $300,000 on a programme to promote US immigration for white South Africans, after its prioritisation of the group in a new policy last year did not result in the application numbers the president had hoped for.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a map of the wider Middle East showing his country and the UAE aligned with a paramilitary in Sudan , accused of committing genocide, and separatists in Libya , Yemen and Somaliland .
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a map of the wider Middle East showing his country and the UAE aligned with a paramilitary in Sudan , accused of committing genocide, and separatists in Libya , Yemen and Somaliland .
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Iran has no fundamental differences with the countries in the region, state media reported.
According the semi-official Iranian Tasnim news agency, Pakistan's military chief Asim Munir will visit Iran on Tuesday.
Iran summoned Germany's ambassador to the foreign ministry over what it described as "baseless accusations", Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.
"Donald, we have a job to finish. You said it, and we will finish it together," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Donald Trump in a phone call, following Trump's public endorsement of Netanyahu ahead of the upcoming Israeli elections.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Yemeni group had targeted multiple locations in Saudi Arabia, including airports, energy facilities, and military sites.
Israel carried out an air strike on the town of Wadi al-Hujair in southern Lebanon on Monday evening, local sources said.
When Lebanese lawyer Hassan Bazzi filed a complaint against his country’s ambassador to Washington last month, he expected to face the usual slow process of Lebanon ’s courts.
An Israeli drone strike on al-Jala' neighbourhood in northern Gaza City killed one person and wounded several others, al-Shifa Medical Complex said.
Saudi Arabia has decided to postpone the in-person segment of the Future Investment Initiative, named "Davos in the Desert", which was due to start next week, the Financial Times reported.
Senior Turkish military and defence industry officials were all smiles in Baku two weeks ago as they announced contracts worth $500m to supply the Azerbaijani army.
Like many who watched NAZA , the documentary by Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor who interviewed members of an elite Israeli army unit supplying targets for genocide, I did not learn anything that Middle East Eye had not reported every day for the last three years.
France is reeling from a weekend of violence that left two people dead and thousands injured, as police appeared to lose control of the streets and plunged the final months of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency into crisis.
Israeli police have arrested 10 settlers on suspicion of involvement in two coordinated attacks against a US photojournalist, European diplomats and Palestinians over the weekend in the occupied West Bank, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Monday.
Bangladesh is seeking answers on why Saudi Arabia executed two Bangladeshi nationals in the holy city of Mecca without telling Dhaka.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it is ending food aid for more than 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza due to lack of funding.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it is ending food aid for more than 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza due to lack of funding.
An Israeli drone strike in Gaza City has killed a Palestinian and wounded several others, Wafa reports, citing medical sources.
London’s Metropolitan Police has said it will take no action over a social media post by the wife of the UK prime minister’s national security adviser after she was accused of expressing support for Palestine Action , the direct action group banned under British terrorism law.
On 4 October 2026, the Green Party of England and Wales officially adopted a motion titled "Zionism is Racism". Swift condemnations followed from pro- Israel groups, which declared the policy antisemitic.
The UN's World Food Programme said on Monday that it would end monthly assistance to 500,000 people in Gaza due to a funding shortfall, while warning that needs remained acute.
London’s Metropolitan Police has said it will take no action over a social media post by the wife of the UK prime minister’s national security adviser after she was accused of expressing support for Palestine Action , the direct action group banned under British terrorism law.
British foreign minister Ed Miliband on Monday urged companies and individuals not to proceed with bids for the E1 West Bank settlement project on Monday, warning those involved in the construction of illegal settlements could face sanctions.
At least five people were killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza in the last 24 hours, the territory's health ministry reported.
Israeli troops have detained several Palestinians, including teachers, and issued demoilition notices across the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports.
At least 40 people have been killed or wounded in a Houthi strike on al-Ilm camp in the Jardan district in Yemen’s Shabwa governorate, Al Jazeera reports citing deputy of the provincial governor
Egyptian construction firms surveyed sites in the ruins of the southern Gaza Strip for a housing project dubbed "Green Rafah", Egyptian sources have told Middle East Eye.
Sometime in the autumn of 2000, when I was a sophomore at Columbia University in New York, I was browsing the shelves of the university bookstore and came across Edward Said's The Question of Palestine , published in 1979, the year after Orientalism .
Austrian Airlines LHAG.DE said in an update on Monday that searches of flight OS82's aircraft, passengers and crew in Bulgaria's capital of Sofia found no danger after a threat forced the flight to divert late on Sunday.
Israeli police on Monday announced that they have arrested eight suspects as part of an investigation into settler violence in the West Bank over the weekend.
Good morning Middle East Eye readers, Here are the latest developments: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned US citizens of Iranian access to nuclear weapons, claiming that gas prices will decrease once Tehran's "regime disappears". In a video message addressed to Americans, Netanyahu says "if you're…
"My life is worse than before the war," Omar Halawa, a Palestinian child amputee from Gaza told Middle East Eye.
The US Embassy in UAE issued a security alert warning its citizens in the Middle East to "exercise heightened vigilance" amid escalations in the region.
At a diplomatic summit in Baghdad on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran’s offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within six days remains on the table, with US-Iran talks set to resume on the seventh day if Washington accepts its conditions.
Saudi Arabia's civil defence issued a warning alert early on Monday over the city of Jazan, which has since passed.
An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Bulgarian capital Sofia after a threat was made against the aircraft, according to Reuters citing an airline spokesperson.
The Israeli election on 27 October is one of the most important in the country’s history, the first since 2022 and the Hamas-led attacks of 2023, the genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned US citizens of Iranian access to nuclear weapons, claiming that gas prices will decrease once Tehran's "regime disappears".
The Saudi National Centre for Security Operations against the filming and publishing of details related to attacks on the kingdom.
Palestinians in Gaza City held a mass funeral for 75 people whose bodies were recovered from the rubble on Sunday.
A bomb threat against an Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna on Sunday forced the plane to divert to Bulgaria, according to Bulgarian authorities and the airline.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “driving America into another war to stay out of jail”.
An oil tanker caught fire and exploded after striking a naval mine in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy said on Sunday, according to Iranian media.
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani discussed bilateral cooperation in a phone call with UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Saudi forces launched 110 air strikes and missile attacks across Yemen in 24 hours, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a statement.
The European Union said Sunday that it "strongly condemns" an attack the previous day by a group of Israeli settlers on visiting European diplomats in the occupied West Bank.
Here are the latest developments in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa:
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty discussed regional developments and the importance of de-escalation in a phone call with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Abdelatty said in a social media post.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Tehran on Monday for consultations with Iranian officials and aims to follow up on the implementation of bilateral agreements, Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement.
US President Donald Trump has declared his “complete and total endorsement” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of elections due in less than 10 days.
The Houthis targeted the city of Marib with several missiles, the armed forces of Yemen’s internationally recognised government said.
A Houthi projectile injured at least six people in southern Saudi Arabia on Sunday after it struck a residential area in Najran near the border with Yemen, according to the kingdom's civil defence agency.
UAE Vice President Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed developments in the Middle East with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman during a visit by the Saudi minister to Abu Dhabi, the Emirati state news agency WAM reported on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump has declared his “complete and total endorsement” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of elections due in less than 10 days.
A Saudi helicopter has crashed in the Najran region, killing both crew members, according to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen .
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked US President Donald Trump on Sunday for his support ahead of the country's parliamentary elections on 27 October.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday offered his "complete and total" endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the country's 27 October elections.
The Israeli military is attacking the town of Hadatha in the southern Lebanon area of Bint Jbeil with artillery shelling, according to Lebanese media.
Egypt’s parliament has postponed a crucial vote on whether to authorise defensive military support for Saudi Arabia.
A Saudi helicopter has crashed in the Najran region, killing both crew members, according to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen .
Iran's crude oil production capacity rose from 3.43 million barrels per day in August 2024 to 3.715 million barrels in September 2026, according to Iranian state media.
The number of Palestinians in Gaza killed by the Israeli military since dawn has risen to five, according to Gaza's health ministry.
Iran's newly appointed defence minister, Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabchi, warned the US: "If the American enemy commits another miscalculation, the response from the proud Iranian nation and the warriors of Islam will be both surprising and extensive."
Egypt's parliament is set to hold an emergency session in the afternoon to consider approving President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's request to authorise defensive military assistance to Saudi Arabia if Riyadh requests it.
The Israeli military has killed a Palestinian man in Khan Younis in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
Why would a photograph of a newly married couple incite a storm of abuse? Over the past three years, our coalition (comprising Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War and other partners) has organised more than 35 national demonstrations in London to end the genocide in Gaza .
1 October was supposed to be the “deadline” for foreign migrants in Tripoli. In the weeks leading up to it, dozens of groups and pages on social media urged Libyans to take to the streets in openly xenophobic protests.
Israeli forces are advancing into the al-Makar area of southern Quneitra, in Syria, with six military vehicles, Al Jazeera reported.
Good Morning Middle East Eye readers, If you are just joining us, here are key developments from across the region and beyond:
US Vice President JD Vance said Washington was focused on securing Iran’s “long-term” and “verifiable commitment” not to rebuild its nuclear programme, while claiming the US had “in some ways decisively won” the war against Iran and destroyed its nuclear programme.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that a southbound tugboat was struck by two unidentified projectiles northeast of Khor Fakkan, off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, on Sunday.